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...neocons—whom he alternately describes as Israel’s “Amen Corner” in the U.S.—are intent on conquering some half a dozen Arab states by force. He has written that Bush is “subcontracting [our] Mideast policy out to Ariel Sharon”—and, in the process, expanding an American empire...
Hafez may have schooled his son well in Mideast topology, but it seems he skipped a few pointers for handling the U.S. Many considered Hafez a master of the double game, a man who could have American diplomats queuing up for talks even as Syria sponsored global acts of terror. Bashar began to irritate Washington within months of taking office--in early 2001 he reneged on a quiet understanding to shut down a pipeline pumping illicit oil out of Iraq...
...bitterly with the State Department over plans for a post-Saddam Iraq. The Pentagon civilians have pushed hard for the U.S. to hand over power to a provisional government headed up by their favorite Iraqi exile, Ahmed Chalabi, whom they emphasize is in tune with the President's wider Mideast agenda. A U.S. official traveling with Chalabi in Iraq last week told TIME that the INC leader was "the only one" who could create a viable secular democratic government in Iraq...
...This morning in Baghdad, Vice President Taha Yassin Ramadan told reporters that Iraq had pictures of the battle in Nasiriyeh that he would produce later in the day. By evening (Mideast time), Al Jazeera had begun broadcasting the pictures from Iraq TV. It was not said when the pictures were taken, but it appeared to have been Friday. Before the airing, Al Jazeera warned viewers that the pictures were disturbing...
...Scott MacLeod's Mideast Diary column will appear every Tuesday